M D D : 4040 books
by Hugh L. Moffet M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
A Diffident Doctor tells one doctor's personal story, with all its ups and downs, from childhood to retirement. Beginning in a small Illinois town, to a Harvard College scholarship, to medical school at Yale, it describes his research in virology and the teaching and consulting in pediatric infectious...
Political Aspirations and Perils of Security
Unpacking the Military Strategy of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This book comprises of a range of case studies of military strategy, based on UN documents, observing and concluding the effectiveness of each individual case. Edstrom and Gyllensporre analyse the UN's military strategy, its consequences and its potential to fulfil political ambitions.
Achilles in Vietnam
Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation...
Afghanistan’S Experiences
The History of the Most Horrifying Events Involving Politics, Religion, and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Afghanistan's Experiences is a sweeping analysis of the historic events and interplay between politics, religion, and terrorism in Afghanistan, the southeastern region of the country, and beyond.
The author has vividly explained the origin and the rise of Taliban to powerone of the most important...
by Melissa Yuan-Innes, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Are women ruining medicine? Nah.
Real life in the emergency lane, zeroing on body parts and chicks in scrubs.
Just like Grey’s Anatomy, medicine with a little bit of sex. And, like Fifty Shades of Grey, a tiny bit of torture.
The Heart Speaks
A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
WEAVING MEDICAL NARRATIVE AND CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE, DR. MIMI GUARNERI EXPLORES THE FRONTIERS BEYOND THE PHYSICAL HEART.
Every day, 2,600 Americans die of cardiovascular disease -- one person every thirty-three seconds. Ten times more women die of heart disease than breast cancer. Despite remarkable...
Extreme Measures
Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level
In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.
Jessica Zitter became a doctor...
After the Diagnosis
Transcending Chronic Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
After the Diagnosis is a heartfelt and moving lesson on the art of living well through serious illness.
Dr. Julian Seifter understands the difficulty of managing a chronic condition in our health-obsessed, take-life-by-the-horns, live-forever world. When he found out he was suffering from diabetes,...
HEALING THE WOUNDS
A Physician Looks at His Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book ever written by a doctor about his own profession. In it, David Hilfiker breaks the code of silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives is a dramatically different personal account of how the family doctors gets by in a world of spiraling...
Healing Children
A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
**A National Bestseller
An “astounding and miraculous ” (Madeline Levine) medical memoir by one of our nation’s leading pediatric surgeons-- the visionary head of Children’s National **
Anyone who has seen a child recover from a wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made...
What's New, Doc?
A Collection of Funny, Poignant, and Even Scandalous Medical Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Medicine can be raunchy! is the comment a friend made when I shared some of my stories with her.
Another friend stated, These stories are outrageous! and his statement gave me an idea for the subtitle.
My reply to these friends is, But they are all true. In fact, you should have heard...
Prize Fight
The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
We often think of scientists as dispassionate and detached, nobly laboring without any expectation of reward. But scientific research is much more complicated and messy than this ideal, and scientists can be torn by jealousy, impelled by a need for recognition, and subject to human vulnerability and...
The Edge of Medicine
The Technology That Will Change Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Experts agree that we are entering the Golden Age of Medicine, when our everyday experience of being ill and getting better will be more like science fiction than today's routine trip to the doctor.
Bill Hanson, director of the surgical intensive care unit at the University of Pennsylvania...
by William B. MacCracken, M. D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Normal Sight Without Glasses was first published in 1945. The book was printed by Gazette Press (Berkeley, California).
The author is a physician with over forty years practice of general medicine. After having worn glasses constantly for thirty-seven years, he cures his own eyesight with...